Picture Time

I took Rexford to get his pictures taken this morning. At first I thought we would end up going home without any pictures at all. He kept running off the backdrop and would not smile. He kept whining and fussing and running for the door. The lady made him cry and he was not happy. We tried every toy they had but he wouldn't play with any of them on the background. Finally he started to play a little bit and I was able to get him to smile some. There actually turned out to be quite a few cute pictures. Here are three of them. I'll post more when I get them.

Fire Trucks

Rexford loves fire trucks and he asks us to drive by the fire station each time we're out so he can see a fire truck. He's obsessed with them and loves to watch "Fireman Sam" at Grandma Ursic's house. Today we came home and couldn't get to our house because there were four fire trucks, 2 rescue trucks, and some other fire vehicles blocking our way. We drove around and pulled into our driveway from a different way. It seems that our neighbor's house (across the street) was on fire. Of course this is not good but Rexford enjoyed watching the firemen and flashing trucks. He watched them for an hour and would not leave the window.

Sunday Best

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Ursic for my handsome new church outfit. I wouldn't stand still and smile for the camera at the same time but I look pretty good anyway!

Back to School

Brian is back to work this week so as Rexford puts it, it's "just mommy and me." Every morning during breakfast, Rexford asks me where Daddy is and I tell him that he's in the bathroom getting ready for work. Then Rexford will say, "boo hoo." He hates it when Brian is at work and is always so excited when he comes home. He insists on watching out the window each morning when Brian leaves. We are so lucky that we get him home all summer! But it's back to school time now. We try to keep ourselves busy while Daddy is gone so here's what we did this week.

We went to Disney on Monday and here we are on the carousel :)

We took naps

We played "photographer"

We played "fireman"

My Favorite Friend

Yesterday I was getting Rexford ready to go see some family before bedtime and this is what he said to me.

Rexford: You coming with me mommy?

Mommy: Of course I'm coming with you.

Rexford: Mommy, you my favorite friend. (isn't that the sweetest thing ever?!)

Mommy: Aww, you're my favorite friend too.

I hope he feels that way for a long time! He's so sweet and always wants me to be with him-watching tv, playing in his room, etc. I'm so glad we get to spend so much time together.



Here he is cooking some dinner for me the other day. He always asks me, "what do you like?" and then he cooks it for me.

Weekend Getaway

We spent last weekend in Jacksonville with Brian's brother Eric and his wife Audrey and their son Ethan. We had a lot of fun and it was nice for Rexford to have someone his age to play with the whole time. The only problem was that Rexford wakes up at 7am and Ethan wakes up around 9am so we had to keep Rexford from running to Ethan's room and waking him up! He wanted to play with him so badly it was very hard to keep him entertained every morning. He wouldn't even watch Word World or Caillou! Sorry Eric and Audrey for the morning noise...

The first evening we went to the beach. It was so quiet with no people and no hotels, just the beach. Rexford and Ethan had fun throwing sand back in the water and scooping up water with the bucket. I was surprised but Rexford was very daring and kept running into the water - until he fell down and then he was a little more cautious!

Rexford liked to make footprints in the sand

Playing with Dad

The next morning we went to the zoo. It was a great zoo and it was actually not too sunny so that was nice. Brian fed the sting rays and the kids got to brush goats. Rexford loved the animals, especially the giraffes, elephants, and goats. He's still talking about how the giraffe was eating lettuce and how he got to brush the goat. They had a great splash park there but we didn't last long there since we were all pretty tired and hungry by that point.

That night we went to the beach again and unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me. Eric caught a big crab and the kids loved it. They followed the poor crab around for a long time. They also enjoyed throwing shells back into the ocean.

The next morning we went to church with them and then got ready to head home. Before we left I captured this fun video of the two boys playing together. Rexford didn't want to leave and he has talked about Ethan, Eric, and Audrey since we got home.

The boys loved jumping on the air mattress

On our way to the car, Brian and Rexford had to stop for a picture on Eric's motorcycle. This is the closest they'll ever to get to driving one because I would never consent :)

Thanks guys for a fun weekend! Come see us soon!